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   From: joe@jretrading.com   
      
   On Sat, 6 May 2017 16:00:02 -0400   
   burfordTjustice  wrote:   
      
   > WTF peeps?? Sounds like one of the "Stan" countries.   
   >    
   > Police in the Republic of Ireland have launched an investigation   
   > after a viewer claimed comments made by Stephen Fry on a TV show were   
   > blasphemous.   
   >    
   > Officers are understood to be examining whether the British comedian   
   > committed a criminal offence under the Defamation Act when he   
   > appeared on RTE in 2015.   
   >    
   > Fry had asked why he should "respect a capricious, mean-minded,   
   > stupid god who creates a world.... full of injustice".   
   >    
   > He later said he was not "offensive towards any particular religion".   
   >    
      
   >    
   > Fry said: "How dare you create a world in which there is such misery?   
   > It's not our fault? It's not right. It's utterly, utterly evil. Why   
   > should I respect a capricious, mean-minded, stupid god who creates a   
   > world which is so full of injustice and pain?"   
   >    
   > He went on to say that Greek gods "didn't present themselves as being   
   > all seeing, all wise, all beneficent", adding "the god who created   
   > this universe, if it was created by god, is quite clearly a maniac,   
   > an utter maniac, totally selfish".   
      
   “Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods   
   have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.”   
      
   R A Heinlein   
      
   He probably never visited Ireland...   
      
   --    
   Joe   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)